Stove coal in ample supply at D. W. Horne & Son
The City reports that D. W. Horne and Son have a plentiful stock of stove coal available for customers.
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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1902
Page
10
The City reports that D. W. Horne and Son have a plentiful stock of stove coal available for customers.
Families gather for the Fourth in Chelmsford and Nashua while others report summer projects. E A Howe will reside in a Chelmsford Centre cottage after adding to it. Mr Charles J Glidden and Mrs Glidden prepare a 3800 mile Central Europe tour departing from New York. Dr F L D Rust joins in Dieppe to map the journey. The itinerary includes Swiss lakes and the Black Forest with plans laid by Mr Glidden. Ruth Sparks and Mary Lehmkuhl visit in Elm Street. William Meloy moves to a New York Mutual Life Insurance cashier job in Boston. Arthur Brown returns from the Philippines to School Street.
Local visitors fill Hampton Beach as a growing resort known as the Coney Island of the East. Daily concerts by a famed band, vaudeville acts in the Casino theatre, surf bathing, scenic drives, and top coast dinners draw crowds. Travel from the city is three and three quarters hours via a smooth route, with frequent half hour trips and ample cars to handle crowds.
The Wolfe Tone Guards captured first prize in the great prize bill at Oakgrove on Friday. Their nearest rival was the John Boyle O'Reilly Company of Charlestown. Officers listed include Capt Crimmins and Lieuts Fitzgerald and Boyle. After the drill the Lowell company received hearty congratulations from all hands.
The Happy Seven club held a pleasant July outing at Lone Pine with members Arthur Lewis Abbie Whitney Edward McKean Regina Woods Etta Powers Arthur Whitney Annie Steeves. The club chef Arthur Whitney prepared a delightful menu for the occasion.
George Garland of Water town suffered a burned hand from a blank cartridge while Carlos Hart, 13, wounded his left thigh by a plank cartridge on Saturday. Both were treated at the Emergency hospital.
Dr H L Warner argues in the New York World that health hinges on proper food and exercise. Grape Nuts is touted as the most nutritive food, predigested to aid digestion, enrich blood, and support body brain and nerves. A ten day trial and factory prepared serving ideas are promised.
Rev Leon E Bell pastor of Centralville M E Church announces resignation effective July to become acting president of Vashon College Burton Wash Mrs Bell to be preceptress at same institution Bishop Walden consents. Bell cites love for Christian education and aims to teach Greek literature and psychology at the college.
Rev. R F True begins a series on The Home at First Church. Rev S T Ford delivers a social weather bureau sermon at First Baptist, urging awareness of social currents and adjusting one’s life to righteousness. An anniversary service features over twenty testimonies from longtime members. upcoming talks focus on spiritual obstacles and Palm Tree lessons.
Mamie McBride, 11, of 163 Lawrence Street, was badly burned yesterday afternoon after slipping into a fire in a vacant lot at Mills and Lawrence. Bystanders dragged her from the flames and she was taken home for medical treatment. she is the daughter of James McBride.
John P. O'Reilly, about 55, approached Thorndike street railroad bridge last evening around 10 o clock when he slipped into the canal and was bruised all over. There was no water in the canal, saving him from drowning. He was taken by ambulance to St. John's Hospital and his injuries treated. He said he belongs in Boston.
A city storefront advertises discounts at New York Cloak and Suit Co, 42 Vohn Street, listing percale wrappers, wash skirts, waists, and tailored suits with deep discounts. Notes low prices on assorted colors and styles, though OCR garble mars some lines.
On Sunday eleven new members were received at the First Congregational Church with nine by confession of faith and two by letter. Rev. Ralph Gillam preached on the Lord's supper and, in the evening, on a cure for blindness, urging spiritual sight through Jesus and warning against self conceit and self righteousness.
An advertisement extols Peptiron as an iron tonic that ironizes the blood to give a healthy color to the face lips and ears. It claims to treat pallor nervousness poor circulation and dyspepsia in all ages and sexes with pleasant taste non irritating to teeth and no constipation. The testimonial from a user praises stronger health and better appearance. Available as liquid cordial for $1 per bottle or chocolate pills at 50c or $1 per box by Hood Co Lowell Mass U S A.
Unusually interesting services were held yesterday at Immanuel Baptist church Blossom street. Large daytime and evening audiences included more young people than average. Rev. Robert F. True delivered a communion address and welcomed five new members. Evening sermon launched a series on The Home, praised by the choir directed by W. J. Beaver. Soloists and duets by True and Beaver added to the service. The second sermon in the series will be next Sunday evening titled The Young Man.
Clarence V. Williams of the New Jersey Children's Home Society addressed the Y M C A men's meeting at the association building. He described aiding Delaware and Maryland homeless children, placing them in Christian homes, and cited that over 20,000 have been succored from crime and sin nationwide.
After three attempts the Excelsior band finally played a city concert under good weather before a large South Common crowd. Leader Borjes showcased musicianship with a balanced outdoor programme. Offenbach sprightly numbers and a medley overture titled Hits of the Season drew strong audience response. Notable pieces included American Fantasie and a cornet solo by H. L. Bisbee, with selections by R. B. Hall, Stimson, and Bigelow.
Early yesterday many residents believed Joe Mercier’s Lakeview hotel burned. Reporters found instead a rear barn by the ice houses on the old road consumed overnight. Electric road officials denied starting the tale.
A woman identifying herself as Mary McIsaac from Malden was arrested Saturday night at Lake View on larceny charges in Revere. Revere police were joined by officers from Dracut who later detained three intoxicated individuals early Sunday morning.
A notice corrects a previous report stating that Arthur Colburn of Dracut was injured by a cannon cracker in Lowell on July 4. The accident did not occur in Lowell, and it was his right hand finger and thumb that were injured, not his left.
Textile Council semiannual election results show Joseph F. Convery reelected president by seven votes amid a heated contest with Denis Healy. Timothy O Rourke re elected vice president and J B Curtin recording secretary. Arthur Keefe tops for financial secretary, Henry Johnston becomes treasurer, Frank Simonds first among corresponding secretaries.
The Textile Council held a special meeting to elect officers for six months after a postponed last minute gathering. Officers include President Robert Conroy and Vice President Joseph King with other posts filled by John P. McDonald Michael Dugan and several delegates. Seven of eight trades are represented on the new board. woolen groups are not. The next regular meeting is Wednesday night with expected important business.
Multiple obituaries report deaths including Margarita Quinn of 22 Phillip Street and Laura Brooks of North Tewksbury. Funeral details, burial sites at Hildreth Edson and Lowell cemeteries, and officiants are listed along with bearers, floral dedications, and the Mozart quartet.
Short infant Baxter Frankland Hall Quinn Connor Masterson deaths listed by residence and street addresses in this city. Names include Patrick Short 62, Charles Baxter 0, Alice Frankland 3 months, George Hall 8 months, Margarita Quinn 47, Mary Connor 47, Mary Masterson 39, all dated July 6 at respective homes and ages noted.
The death notices list Ruth S Shaw 81 heart disease and many others by age and cause including George H Stinneford 8 diphtheria Helen M Curran 4 meningitis Mary A Headland 40 heart disease Nora Ready 28 tuberculosis Adelard Mireault 6 months diol inft Maria Perry 6 months enteritis Yvonne Rainville 3 months pneumonia Eleanor Brennan 5 heart disease Sewall E Munsey 61 ch ne phritis Elizabeth R Rourke 11 months diarrhoea Wiladystaf Wirnowsky 10 months enterocolitis Orora Monfalcone 6 months diol infl Sophie Mascotte 67 heart disease Mary Markham 64 arteriosclerosis Emma E Rushworth 46 cancer Clarence Dahlgren 12 skull fracture Wilifred Belch 3 months gastric catarrh Alma M Pilotte 4 days general debility July 1 Joseph Hovey 89 senility Michael B Caffrey 57 drowning Owen Gillogly 48 oedema of lungs Delia Plouffe 42 palm tuberculosis Mary E McOsker 1 meningitis Louis J Pilotte 5 months marasmus Jeremiah Regan 6 pneumonia Mary Maransky 3 months cholera influenza John McDonald 9 months cholera influenza Catherine Griffin 68 arteriosclerosis Patrick Kennedy 48 carcinoma Fannie Karolina 5 months dihol infl Antonio Soriza 4 months enteritis Daniel F Coughlin 24 meningitis Masterson 9 days premature. GIRARD P DADMAN City Clerk.
Lowell population 99 574 total deaths 34 deaths under five 15 infectious diseases 1 acute lung diseases 2 diphtheria 1 Death rate 17 75 for week ending July 5 1902 versus 16 71 and 19 32 prior two weeks Infectious diseases reported scarlet fever 1 diphtheria 4 measles 4 Board of Health.
The professional sprinting circuit opens at the Revere Cycle Track next Saturday with riders such as Plugger Bill Martin who recently won the handicap against Australia. Beauchamp the Australian champion and Eddie Bald the longtime star are among entrants along with Iver Lawson Frank Kramer Major Taylor Owen Kimble Dave Sullivan Schrieber Bedell Hadfield Collett and other notable professionals aiming to gain first points in the series.
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